Microbial Informatics

Lecture 02

Patrick D. Schloss, PhD (microbialinformatics.github.io)
Department of Microbiology & Immunology

Learning objectives

  • Introduce RStudio
  • Introduce knitr
  • Describe how to generate a document in markdown
  • Differentiate between different flavors of markdown

What is Markdown?

What's special about R markdown?

Syntax

  • Headings
  • Italics, bold, bold italics
  • Lists

For Friday

  • Install appropriate software
  • Order books
  • Sign-up for an account on GitHub
  • Check out Software Carpentry Git tutorial

Questions?